Google Buying Video Compression Company of 1.20 billion dollars Tweet

MOUNTAIN VIEW - In the midst of economic recession, Google still continue to do acquisitions. Fund about 1.20 billion dollars to buying company based in Mountain View, California, U.S. to buy a manufacturer of video compression solutions On2 Technologies Inc..

On2 video compression technology developed so that the files with large size can be compressed to be easily sent over the Internet. The technology is very important in the middle of the multimedia content on the Internet.

"Video is now an important part of web services technology and we believe high-quality video compression should be part of a web platform," said Sundar Pichai, vice president of Google's product management.

This acquisition is part of Google's strategy to strengthen its business in video services. Previously Google has acquired YouTube worth 1.65 billion dollars in 2006.

The value offered by Google's acquisition to On2 Technologies for 106.5 million U.S. dollars. Google hopes the acquisition can be completed in the fourth quarter of this year.

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Want to compete with Skype, Google Purchase Gizmo5 Tweet

With the target will help Google Voice to Skype competitors, Google was buying a company, which is Gizmo5.

What is Gizmo5? Gizmo5 is a producer of software that allows users to make phone calls voice-over-IP (VoIP) from computers and mobile phones respectively. This service is very similar to Skype, which also offers VoIP phone service.

The acquisition was announced on the Google Voice Google his blog. There Wesley Chan and Craig Walker said that the existing Gizmo5 users will still be able to use their services, but Google will stop the registration of new services. The existing users will not be able to register a new call number.

"Currently we do not yet have specific features to be announced. Gizmo5 But the engineers will join the team of Google Voice to continue to improve Google Voice and Gizmo5," said Chan and Walker.

Gizmo5 acquisition, similar to Skype, is Google's second acquisition two years ago bought Grand Central. Grand Central now been transformed into a Google Voice. Gizmo5 addition, last week Google also bought admob mobile advertising company worth 450 million pounds. As in the Reuters interview, Google revealed its intention to buy one company each month.

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Because SanDisk, the microSD prices fell sharply Tweet

Looks like no one else wants microSD memory card. MicroSD price was recorded 15% - 20% lower than prices offered by chip vendors.

According to Digitimes, the device manufacturers are now reluctant to buy a microSD card directly from the manufacturer of NAND flash chips. Because they can get better prices from a third party.

Efforts to control prices had remained high microSD made by Samsung with a way to limit the amount of release. But the weakening market demand, and the impact on microSD price decline. The chip manufacturer was asked to lower bid prices.

Black sheep of the price decline is SanDisk's microSD. SanDisk microSD cards began supplying to the NAND flash device maker based in Taiwan with cheap price. The flash-based device manufacturer and then sell the cards as its own brand.

According to DRAMexhange, on November 11, the average price for the 1GB microSD and 2GB respectively down 4.51 percent and 4.86 percent.

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Downloaded Chrome OS Ready Next Week? Tweet

Operating system from Google search engine authority, Chrome OS, ready to be downloaded next week. Thus the gossip on the Internet.

The bad news, though Google says it has worked with Acer, Adobe, Asus, Freescale, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments and Toshiba on its OS Chrome, the number of devices that support earlier this operating system will be limited. According to TechCrunch, these limitations are due to the absence of support for basic components such as network interface hardware and graphics cards. As a result you will not be able to download the Chrome OS and run it on any machine.

Google initially said that the netbook that can run this OS will not be available to the public before the second semester of 2010. However, the code might be open (open source) in the coming weeks, as promised in Google Chrome Blog.

Also different web browser Chrome with Chrome OS, despite the same name - will be coming to Apple machines in December. In a letter to the developers, Nick Baum (Project Manager Chrome browser) says that the Chrome beta version of 4.0 that was only available for Windows and Linux will also be present in the Apple Mac. For your information, Google launched Chrome browser in 2008 and currently still in experimental stages.

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Microsoft sells Linux tool Tweet

If you can not beat him, then Embrace it. As soon as the saying goes. It seems this is what Microsoft's open source.

Lord of proprietary software has just confirmed his pace on the open source arena. Microsoft will sell Linux tool.

Microsoft just bought the assets associated with the Teamprise from SourceGear. This could mean that the developers are using Eclipse IDE, or operate on several operating systems, including Unix, Linux and Mac OS X, will build applications with Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server.

Microsoft spokesman said, the functionality of the Teamprise Client Suite will be integrated into the Visual Studio product line, which started with Visual Studio 2010. Microsoft initially treat open source like a naughty stepchild. However, recently the company being headquartered in Redmond was softened.

S. Somasegar (Senior Vice President, Developer Division, Microsoft) said that they knew its users every day face the challenge of management, collaboration and development in diverse environments. IT industry, including Microsoft, so he said, must take steps to make interoperability happen.

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Egypt Make First Language Arabic Internet Domain Tweet

Shortly after the non-Latin characters can be used to address the web site, Egypt became the first country to propose a new domian name with Arabic characters. Domains using Arabic characters which reads ". Masr" means Mesir="Egypt".

Egypt Technology Minister Tarek Kamel, Monday (16/11), expects that it can be further popularized the use of the Internet in developing countries. With the existence and content of Arabic web address, internet strived to reach wider segments of society are more familiar with local culture.

"The Internet is now in Arabic," Kamel says in the opening like the Internet Governance Forum. According to him, the new domain is a very important moment for Egypt. New domain in Arabic is believed will attract investment, innovation and economic growth.

Permit the use of Arabic domian name passed in the meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), an independent body that regulates web addresses end of October and then in Seoul, Korea. Besides Arabic, non-Latin characters are also allowed to include China and Korea.

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Rupert Murdoch Not Need Google Help Tweet

Do not want content-generated content network Google indexed media company, Rupert Murdoch was going to take action. Seasoned entrepreneurs owner News Corporation was planning to remove all indexes content from Google's search results in the near future.

It is said Jonathan Miller, chief digital officer of News Corp. in Monaco Media Forum last week. The plan, all content produced by media under the umbrella of News Corp., like The Times, The Sun, and the Wall Street Journal will be cleansed from the Google index engine in the next two years.

According to him, the media industry will not survive if the content-high-quality content is given away freely. He was sure, without the help of Google's search results, the articles made by the media News Corp. can survive and find a place in the hearts of readers.

"Traffic coming from Google's often not desirable that the reader immediately abandoned. That's exactly what actually harmful to us. The effect of the economy was expected. So, you can live without it," Miller said as reported by the Telegraph website.

Miller said there are many approaches to charge of online content and things like that that News Corp. continue to think about. Previously, Murdoch had said that News Corp. plans to apply tariffs to access all the articles made under the media start next June. However, the plan may be delayed.

News Corp. is including this long felt disadvantaged from the articles that appeared through the search engines. For example, the Wall Street Journal article that should be paid if accessed from the site - only free for the first paragraph - but it can be fully accessed if from a Google search result link.

News Corp. will close the meeting emphasized the reach of Google into the content-led content and media industries to follow. This is called News Corp. as a real competition between the camps of free and paid.

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